“My management troubles may have derived mainly from my lack of business experience, but they were multiplied by not having a real partner to help me run the company.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: The Importance of Partners, Partners, Business Leadership
“The more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: Anger, Why You Should Let Go
“When you’ve lived alone for a number of years, I’m afraid that you begin to realize how hard it would be to accommodate to living with someone else, adjusting to or even indulging his desires and his life.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: Living Alone
“It’s dangerous when you are older to start living in the past.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: Combating Age, Getting Older
“Sometimes you don’t really decide, you just move forward, and that is what I did—moved forward blindly and mindlessly into a new and unknown life.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: Blind Jump
“When I look back over my long life, if there is one thing that leaps out at me it is the role of luck and chance in our lives. From this particular string of accidental happenings all the rest followed.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.comTagged: Happenstance, Luck